Eve's Apology

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The final few stanzas continue a similar repetition but instead turn their focus more unto the severity of Adam’s and Pontius Pilate’s transgressions and guilt. For instance, she argues that women came from the rib of men biblically, so any evil that women might be characterized with originated within men [cite.] Though none of “Eve’s Apology” has let up on the fact that Adam and men are not blameless, here we see a more aggressive attitude in proving just how hypocritical men are in their thoughts about women in this sense. Lanyer here moves from the focus on Adam and Eve to the crucifixion of Christ, the character of the Wife of Pilate lording that abominable sin over man. She describes the sin of killing Christ equaling many “world’s” sins

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